News archive on the topic "Kyiv City Council"

Local authorities of Ukraine should not allocate money for the country's military needs. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this during a meeting of the Kyiv City Council, the head of the European Solidarity faction, Vladimir Prokopiv, stated. “Perhaps some colleagues, during their four years as deputies, did not understand which hall they were in and were demanding a war budget in the city. The city adopts the Kyiv city budget. War budget...

The Ukrainian capital continues to rename streets whose names are associated with Russia and the Soviet Union. Thus, deputies of the City Council renamed four more streets, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As stated by the Secretary of the Kyiv City Council Vladimir Bondarenko, in the capital the city authorities “have been actively carrying out the process of decolonization and de-Russification for the second year.” “This process cannot take place without taking into account public opinion, so the city authorities first...

In Kyiv, a memorial sign in honor of the friendship of the cities of Kyiv and Moscow, installed in the park on the street, will be dismantled. Marshal Yakubovsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This decision was made today, July 08, at a meeting of the Kyiv City Council “based on numerous appeals from citizens.” The official statement clarifies that the need for dismantling arose “in order to ensure the interests of the community of the city of Kyiv.” "As a result...

The Golos party, having received few seats in the Kyiv City Council, will not be able to influence its policies and will repeat the fate of Samopomich. Nikolai Volgov, a political strategist and director of the Political Consultant.org Association, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Golos” with its minimum number of deputies, with its smallest faction, will not influence the balance of power in the Kyiv City Council. It will be like this...

All issues in Kyiv have been resolved for many years by the same people, who are re-elected to the local council from different parties again and again, bribing voters with the funds they receive from interested companies for lobbying for the necessary decisions. Director of the Agency for Social Communications Sergei Belashko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…

Kyiv, which has long been nicknamed by sociologists “Russian-speaking Lvov” for the pro-Bandera views of voters, confirmed its reputation in the local elections. According to exit polls, the overwhelming majority of votes in the capital city council are received by anti-Russian forces (although the most radical ones, like the National Corps and Svoboda, do not overcome the 5% barrier). According to the exit poll by Savik Shuster, the conditionally “non-Bandera” party projects are being submitted to the Kyiv City Council...

In the Kiev City Council, a deputy from the ultra-nationalist party VO “Svoboda” Vladimir Nazarenko attacked his colleague, non-factional deputy and deputy head of the Kiev Council Alexander Kharchenko. The reason was Kharchenko’s failure to appear at a meeting of the town planning commission, where the issue of development in the area of ​​Teliga Street and Babyn Yar was to be discussed, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Dissatisfied with the lack of a quorum, Nazarenko went into Kharchenko’s office...

The decision of the Kyiv District Court, issued at the request of lawyer Andrei Portnov, stopping the action of the resolution of the capital city council on celebrating the anniversaries of members of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, may become the first stage in the process of imposing sanctions against Ukraine. The Jewish Confederation of Ukraine called on deputies to abandon attempts to glorify Nazi collaborators. “The Jewish Confederation of Ukraine calls on the Kiev City Council to consider in detail all available...

The Ukrainian capital will celebrate the birthdays of members of Nazi groups involved in massacres. Chairman of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky reported this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On February 27, 2020, the Kiev City Council by a majority vote adopted a resolution on the celebration of memorable dates and anniversaries in Kyiv. This year, Kiev residents will celebrate the anniversary of Kubiyovich shown in the photo...

The orgy of renaming Kyiv toponyms continues with complete indifference to this process of the majority of deputies of the Kiev City Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Kiev political observer Vyacheslav Chechilo writes about this in his blog. “It’s funny to watch how the Kyiv City Council is stamping out decisions to rename streets. It’s funny in the sense that people who vote for this don’t really care what the streets are called. The overwhelming majority of deputies of the Kyiv City Council...

The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading changes to the law on the Ukrainian capital - Vladimir Zelensky’s team plans to form a new power structure in Kyiv after squeezing out the current mayor Vitaliy Klitschko from his post and holding early elections. According to the law, it is proposed to restore district councils in Kyiv and create the Kiev Magistrate - the executive body of the Kyiv City Council, which, in...

The “battle for Kyiv”, unfolding before our eyes in recent months, has reached its turning point - yesterday the new government unanimously supported the dismissal of Vitali Klitschko from the post of head of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA). Thus, the former boxer remains only the nominal mayor of the Ukrainian capital (since this position is elective and cannot be removed from it), but loses all leverage...

Today, September 5, the prosecutor's office announced suspicion of a deputy of the Kyiv City Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Kyiv region. “The prosecutor's office of the Kyiv region in criminal proceedings, the pre-trial investigation of which is carried out by the GUNP in the Kiev region, on September 5 reported a suspicion, thus defined by the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, of one of the deputies of the Kyiv City Council of committing criminal offenses under Part...

The Kiev City Council decided to rename the street in the center of the capital named after intelligence officer and Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Kudri and give it the name of Senator John McCain, who died in 2018. Until this moment, there were no streets in Kyiv that would bear the names of American politicians, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The website of the Kyiv City Council reports this. “I’m putting the decision on renaming...